Effects of Physical Exercise Versus Group Therapy on Self-esteem Among Domestic Violence Victims

Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Status

Completed

Conditions

Domestic Violence

Treatments

Behavioral: Counseling/support group therapy

Behavioral: Physical Exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04875494

DDCSPP

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current study is a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of 6 weeks of physical exercise training versus group therapy on self-esteem as well as on the various subdomains of physical self-esteem among women who have experienced domestic violence within the last two months at the time of data collection

Full description

The present study design includes three arms (two intervention arms): Physical Exercise (Group A), Counseling/Support Group (Group B), and No Intervention (Control, Group C). Random allocation to each group was done in a 1:1:1 ratio at the end of an initial telephone interview by one of the authors. A permutated block design with a block size of three was used. For each participant in Groups A and B, the assigned intervention was started the week following the initial interview, and lasted 6 weeks.

Enrollment

36 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

having experienced domestic violence at some time in the past 2 months

Exclusion criteria

not being physically active on a regular basis (less than 20 min of moderate-vigorous physical activity per day during the last year)
absence of medical contraindication to exercise